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Butchers Loaf Recipes Can: With Chicken, Wholegrain Rice & Carrots review

Name: Butchers Loaf Recipes Can: With Chicken, Wholegrain Rice & Carrots
Brand: Butchers

71.2/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

A smooth pate-style can with no chunks or gravy, and a chicken range at heart whatever the front says. Every species on the label carries a percentage. The beef and chicken reach our Excellent band and the lamb sits a band behind in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that want one even texture and push chunks around the bowl
Owners who like the animal content declared, species by species
A dog that does well on a richer dinner: 27.5% fat in dry matter, 90 kcal per 100g
Keeping the recipe steady while only the headline meat changes
Adults from toy breeds to giants

Worth watching

Chicken leads all three, the lamb can included, where lamb is 4%
Salmon oil in every can, so fish is always in
The liquid behind 80% moisture is never named on the list

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

71.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. If you are keeping chicken, fish or seed oil out of the bowl, none of the three will do.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Beef 73.1
With Chicken 71.2
With Lamb 59.5

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

With the analysis identical across all three, the gap between the lamb and the other two comes from how the meat is divided, not anything you would taste.

What's in it

British and Irish farmed: chicken, beef31%, 11%The most chicken in the range. Beef is still in.
Cooked wholegrain rice4%
Carrots4%Easy to digest, with a little fibre.
Salmon oil, sunflower oilNo percentage on either. Fish and seed oil both in the bowl.
Parsley, rosehip, chicory, mint
Minerals

A short panel, every item dosed: vitamins A and D3 with zinc, manganese and iodine.

Sold as chicken, but beef is in the can at 11%.

Named ingredients

British & Irish Farmed (Chicken 31%, Beef 11%), Cooked Wholegrain Rice 4%, Carrots 4%, Salmon Oil, Sunflower Oil, Parsley, Rosehip, Chicory, Mint, Minerals.

Against the range

Chicken: 31%; 27% on the beef, 30% on the lamb.
Beef: 11%; 15% on the beef can, 8% on the lamb.

The obvious pick for a dog happiest on poultry.

One recipe under three names. Chicken is the largest meat in every can, with beef always beside it and lamb added at 4% on the third. Cooked wholegrain rice at 4% is the only cereal, with carrots or peas at 4%, and salmon oil and sunflower oil give the loaf its richness.

The analysis is identical on all three: protein 40.0% of dry matter, fat 27.5% and an estimated 21.5% carbohydrate. No broth or water is listed, though moisture is declared at 80%. The added panel is short and fully dosed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

90 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

27.5%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

21.5%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

44%

Added water

15%

Carbs

Veg

9.5%

Oils

21.1%

Other

6.4%

Pricing & size